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“Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size.”

Book:Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity

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“He was still so very young. Faeries—true faeries, not their changeling throwaways—live forever, and when you have an eternity of adulthood ahead of you, you linger over childhood. You tend it and keep it close to your heart, because once it ends, it’s over. Quentin was barely fifteen. He’d never seen the Great Hunt that came down every twenty-one years, or been present for the crowning of a King or Queen of Cats, or announced his maturity before the throne of High King Aethlin. He was a child, and he should have had decades left to play; a century of games and joy and edging cautiously toward adulthood. But he didn’t. I could see his childhood dying in his eyes as he looked at me, silently begging me to answer for him.”

Loss Growing Up Sad Adulthood Seanan Mcguire An Artificial Night Choldhood

Book:An Artificial Night

Source: An Artificial Night

“They said growing up was watching your breasts grow, your waist widen and hairs sprout on your erogenous ones. You became aware of the warmness that spread in circles in your stomach when that fine boy smiled at you. But that was not growing to me. Growing up was watching Papa drift away from us, and Mama grow drastically older from frying Akara balls just to cater for our home.”

Growing Up

Book:Eyes of a Goddess

Source: Eyes of a Goddess

“It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really — to have decided to be human?”

Growing Up Recovery

Book:The Moth Diaries

Source: The Moth Diaries

“She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe she's gotten through life that way, but I don't forgive her for anything--and I don't even know what awful things she's done other than showing a lack of parental fitness.”

Growing Up Parenting Raising Children Unfit Parent

Book:Challenger Deep

Source: Challenger Deep

“Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.”

Growing Up

Book:Perfect Peace

Source: Perfect Peace

“You can get what you want or you can just get old.”

Growing Up Follow Your Dreams

Author:Billy Joel

“In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.”

Grief Growing Up Adulthood Manhood Dogs Pets

Author:James Thurber

“It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.”

Growing Up Big Words

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.”

Fun Growing Up Childhood Ignorance Lifestyle Silly Career Naive Working Idealist Naivety

Book:Write like no one is reading 2

Source: Write like no one is reading 2

“It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron strings if the strings are virtual?”

Fiction Growing Up College Instagram Facebook Leaving Home New Adult Fiction New Adult Lit

Book:Beware of Love in Technicolor

Source: Beware of Love in Technicolor

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